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(No Model.)

G. FRAUENBERGER.

LABEL 0R STAMP PROTECTOR.

No. 414,205. Patented Nov. 5, 1889.

WITNESSES UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE FRAUENBERGER, OF ROCHESTER, NE\V YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- IIALF TOROBERT KAUOHER, OF SAME PLACE.

LABEL OR STAMP PROTECTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 414,205, dated November5, 1889.

Application filed February 21 1889. Serial No. 298,529. (No model.)

T0 (125 whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE FEAUENBER- GER, of Rochester, in the countyof Monroe and State of New York, have invented a certain new and usefulImprovement in Stamp and Label Protectors; and I do hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same,reference being had to the drawings accompanying this application.

The object of my improvement is to provide an attachment that can beapplied to barrels, boxes, and other packages to hold a label toindicate the parties from whom such packages are received.

It is customary in shipping beer, ale, wine, and other liquors to brandthe name of the owner on the cask to insure safe return, and also toattach a label bearing the name of the party to whom the goods areshipped. This label is supposed to remain attached till the casks arereturned and to indicate to the owner the parties from whom they arereceived. It is frequently the case that the casks returned by differentparties become mixed in transit, and if the labels are lost it isdifficult to make assortment or to trace the casks. Such labels areusually pasted or stuck on the casks and frequently get detached or tornoff. It is the object of my invention to remedy the difliculty byattaching the labels in a permanent manner, as hereinafter described.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of a cask, showing thelabel applied. Fig. 2 is a plan view (full size) of the frame or ringfor holding the label. Fig. 3 is a plan View of the loose disk at thebottom of the frame. Fig. 4. is a vertical cross-section of the deviceattached to the head of a cask. Fig. 5 is a face View of the label orstamp. Fig. 6 is a vertical cross-section of the ring or frame and anedge View of the loose disk.

A indicates the cask to which the device is attached. A shallow hole isbored in one of the heads of sufficient depth to receive the device, butnot so deep as to pass through the head or weaken the same.

B is the frame or ring that holds the label. It is circular and of ringform, the center being open, as shown, and it is of such size as to bedriven closely into the socket prepared for it in the wood. Being cast,its exterior is usually rough enough to hold tightly in the wood; but ifscrewed it may be provided with screw-threads or otherwise prepared toenable it to hold tightly in place. It is sunk in the wood, so that itsouter face stands flush,

as shown in Fig. 4. The opening at its top and the opening at its bottomare of great-er diameter than the opening at its center, leaving therebya shoulder a 0b, which is designed to hold the label in place.

0 is a disk of sheet metal fitted loosely in the bottom of the socketformed in the wood and resting under the frame 13, its object being toreceive the label and allow the same to be removed at any time by aknife or other pointed instrument without picking into the wood.

D is the label or stamp, consisting of a disk of heavy paper of suchsize as to fill the space in the lower part of the frame B and restunder the shoulder a a, which holds it in place and prevents accidentaldisplacement.

The labels can. be easily pressed down through the open top of theframe, and when once seated it expands and holds in place. It is markedwith a figure or letter or other charactor to indicate the party to whomthe cask is shipped, or it maybe marked with the name of the party. Thislabel remains in place and when the cask is returned to the owner itindicates from whom the cask is received.

WVhen it is desired to change the label, it can readily be picked out bya knife or other suitable instrument and a new one substituted in itsplace.

The great advantage of this invention is that it enables the packages tobe assorted and traced back to the parties by Whom they were returned,whereas labels stuck to the sides of the packages are frequently tornfrom place by rough usage or lose their adhesiveness by becoming Wet. Inthis invention the label is sunk below the surface of the wood and isnot subject to violence, and, being in closed and held in place, it willnot fall out when wet.

The invention is applicable to all kinds of packages made of wood andholding any kinds of goods.

Having described my invention, What I whichreceivesthelabehandashoulderabove claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters theseat to hold the label in place, as de- Patent, is scribed.

The label or stamp holder herein described, GEORGE FRAUENBERGER. 5consisting of a ring capable of being sunk Witnesses:

into a cavity in the package to which it is at- FREDRICK FRAUENBERGER,

tached, provided with a seat in its bottom DAVID C. SMITT.

